Executive Branch
Executive Branch Resources
on GPO Access
A menu of links to the various resources related to the
work of the executive branch that are available on GPO
Access. President
Agencies
- Official Federal Government
Web Sites - Executive Branch (Library of Congress Internet Resource Page)
Also includes some independent agencies, boards, commissions, committees and
quasi-official agencies.
- Agency Index
(Federal) (Doc-Law Web, Washlaw - Washburn Univ. School of Law)
Covers
executive agencies and independent agencies and establishments. Includes a table
with links by agency name to: publications, organizational charts, forms,
opinions, maunuals, libraries and directories.
- Federal
Administrative Decisions & other Actions (Government Information
Resources University of Virginia Library)
Links to agency documents
outside the CFR & Federal Register. Includes
administrative decisions, announcements, manuals, administrative law judge
information, E-FOIA reading room material and more. Browsable by agency name or
by subject.
- Regulations.gov
Find, review
and submit comments on Federal government documents that are open for comment
and published in the Federal Register, e.g. proposed regulations. Search
by keyword or phrase or browse by agency name.
- Justia: Regulation Tracker
Similar to the Regulations.gov web site (above). Notable additional features
include: retrospective coverage back to 2005 and an RSS feed subscription.
- U.S. Department of Justice
Click on
the DOJ Agencies
link to locate the web page of a particular bureau, division, service or office
within the DOJ, e.g. FBI, Civil Rights Division, Office of Legal Counsel, Office
of the Attorney General.
Judicial Branch
Federal Judiciary Home Page (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts).
Federal Judicial Center Home Page
U.S. Courts - Links (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
Links to Federal court web sites, arranged by circuit. Includes circuit, district and other federal courts.
Federal Courts Finder (Emory Law Library)
Federal Judicial Nominations (Lillian Goldman Library, Yale Law School)
History of the Federal Judiciary (Federal Judicial Center)
Provides a "Federal Judges Biographical Database" covering Federal judges since 1789, descriptions and legislative history information of the various Federal courts, full text of "Landmark Judicial Legislation", "Topics in Judicial History", a "Historic Courthouse Photograph Exhibit" with over 600 images of federal courthouses, essays on the creation and administration of the federal judiciary, including various administrative bodies, a “Timeline for Landmark Judicial Legislation”, and links to various Federal courts historical programs, such as the Historical Society of the U.S. Courts in the 8th Circuit
PACER: Public Access to Court Electronic Records PACER FAQ
Case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts. Supreme Court
- United States Supreme Court Home Page (U.S. Supreme Court & the G.P.O.)
- Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
A comprehensive and detailed research guide to web resources. Contains annotated links to the "most reliable substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research."
- Senate Committee on the Judiciary: Supreme Court Nomination Hearings (1972-forward) (pdf format, zip files)
- The U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database (Northwestern University Law School)
"This is a multi-user, public database containing a wealth of information on individuals nominated (whether confirmed or not) to the U.S. Supreme Court (John Jay-Samuel A. Alito, Jr). Specifically, the Database houses 263 variables, falling roughly into five categories: identifiers, background characteristics and personal attributes, nomination and confirmation, service on the Court, and departures from the bench." Excel, SPSS & STATA versions are available.
- Supreme Court Historical Society
- The Harry A. Blackmum Papers at the Library of Congress
Supreme Court Opinions, Records & Briefs
Circuit Court Web Sites & Opinions
Legislative Branch
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet Congressional and legislative information, bills, laws (Library of Congress).
- GovTrack.us
"On this site you'll find the status of legislation, the speeches of representatives on the House and Senate floors, voting records, campaign contribution summaries, and more, plus the opinions of other users through their blog entries. And you can follow only the issues that interest you through email updates and RSS feeds."
- LexisNexis Congressional
Legislative information, bills, laws and other publications available at workstations in libraries on the Univ. of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.
- Legislative Branch Resources on GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office).
A menu of links to the various resources related to the work of the legislative branch that are available on GPO Access.
- United States Senate Home Page
- LLSDC Legislative Source Book (Compiled by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. - Legislative Research SIS).
Contains a number of useful resources for researching federal legislative and regulatory history.
- Center for Legislative Archives (National Archives & Records Administration)
Includes information on accessing the records congress. Contains finding aids for legislative records and links to online resources.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (Library of Congress - American Memory Project)
U.S. Congressional documents & debates from the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, and the 1st-42nd Congresses: 1774-1873. The web site also includes volumes 1-17 of the U.S. Statutes at Large, which contain the laws of the 1st - 42nd Congresses (1789-1873).
- Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
The CBO's mission is to "provide Congress with objective, timely nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budget decisions and with informamtion and estimates required for the Congressional budget process.
- Government Accountability Office (GAO)
"The GAO is the audit, evaluation and investigative arm of Congress." Web site includes GAO reports, testimony and Comptroller General Decisions and Opinions.
- Congressional Research Service Reports (Documents Center, Univ. of Michigan Library)
University of Michigan Library Documents Center's listing of sources for CRS reports. Many of these same sources are available from the Law Library and Government Publications Library on the U of M campus.
- Congressional Research Service Reports (Memory Hole)
A collection of over 300 CRS publications in full-text (Short Reports, Long Reports, Issue Briefs and Appropriations Reports), formerly available (access removed Oct. 2003) via Congressional web sites. These copies are in .pdf format courtesy of the Memory Hole.
- Congressional Research Service Reports (Thurgood Marshall Law Library, Univ. of Maryland Law School)
An online collection of links to CRS reports available on the web. Reports are browsable by subject, date, title and order code. The site also includes links to other online collections of CRS reports.
- Federal Government Resources - Legislative Branch
House, Senate & Joint Committee web sites, Senate & House Directories and more. (Univ. of Michigan Documents Center)
- Links to Congressional Information from Official & Non-Official Sources (Library of Congress Internet Resource Page)
- U.S. Legislative Information Sources on the Internet
A very well organized web site of links to Federal legislative information. (Bowling Green State)
Other Sites for Locating Federal Documents & Publications
Acronyms, Abbreviations & Glossaries
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